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2 commentsLast Tuesday night, the always ebullient developer Oliver Kuttner breathed some life into the normally staid proceedings of the Board of Architectural Review, floating an idea to "make cars disappear...

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After Hours Video owner Rick Krial (right) received a $2,500 total in fines for the obscenity conviction. The jury found his employee Tinsley Embrey (left) not guilty.
PHOTO BY LINDSAY BARNES
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The trial against the owner and cashier of After Hours Video is the first obscenity case in Staunton in recent memory.
HOOK COVER
Nearly ten months to the day after undercover police first...

0 commentsJurors in the closely watched Staunton obscenity trial had to do some watching of their own this morning. According to on-site Hook reporter Lindsay Barnes, the jury appeared stunned at first and...

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The trial against the owner and cashier of After Hours Video is the first obscenity case in Staunton in recent memory.
HOOK COVER
After ten months of preparation, and screening 27 potential jurors...

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Denny King originally planned to use the WCVL call letters on a TV station under the Market Street Garage.
FILE PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
Four years ago, Denny King had a dream of a TV station called...

0 commentsWear your faith on your envelope.
PHOTO COURTESY SUE CIFELLI
The faithful who still use snail mail can now buy stamps online from HolyPostage.com, a service newly launched in conjunction with the U.S...

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Falwell Inc. details how the Rev. Jerry Falwell built a business empire from his home base in Lynchburg.
COURTESY OF LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
On Wednesday, August 6, the New York Daily News published a...

9 commentsA forthcoming book reports that when televangelist and Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell died last May, he did so having lost most of his multi-million dollar fortune on a bad real estate deal...

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Adam Gottschalk's Midnight Barbecue is an Internet hit.
PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN
Two months after former "Voice of the Cavaliers" Mac McDonald resigned from the Virginia Sports Network, another...

1 commentsLes Yeux du Monde finds gallery space in former bridal shop.
PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE
When last we checked in with Les Yeux du Monde, the art gallery was vacating its tony digs in the Terraces at...

3 commentsA peek inside the new burger joint, scheduled to open early fall.
PHOTO BY MARISSA D'ORAZIO
The chic-but-unnamed new burger-joint/music-venue replacing Orbit Billiards on the Corner proudly touts a...

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Michael Crafaik stands in front of the Bistro that shares his moniker.
PHOTO BY MARISSA D'ORAZIO
Ever since Michael's Bistro, a venerable Corner eatery, mysteriously shut down over a week ago, a...

3 commentsJust 13 days after the John Kluge-owned Ponderosa Steakhouse auctioned off all of the assets at its Charlottesville location, Kluge's company Metromedia confirms today that it has shut down all of...

0 commentsThe economy may be flagging, gas and food prices might be rising, and the Paramount Theater might have recently upped the ante in the grab for the baby-boomer concert dollar with their new fall...

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Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery–- but the University of Virginia has two imitators in cyberspace that it doesn't find sufficiently flattering to tolerate: a Middle Eastern...

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Larry Wilson came to Charlottesville in 2006 to manage John Paul Jones Arena.
COURTESY OF POLLSTAR
While the Paramount Theater has had no trouble attracting notable national talent to its stage...

3 commentsNearly 35 years after Virginians last experienced the thrills and spills of skiing on plastic, the university-that-Jerry-built announced plans yesterday to build a $1.7 million Snowflex ski slope on...

0 commentsCalling it "arbitary and capricious," a federal appeals court has nixed the $550,000 fine and thereby apparently rebuked Michael Powell, who notoriously added insult to injury when his Federal...

4 commentsYesterday Starbucks released the full list of the 600 shops it will close, and none are in Charlottesville. The five Virginia stores shutting down are all in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.
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